Roby Dwi Antono (b. 1990, Semarang, Indonesia) lives and works in Yogyakarta. Formerly a graphic designer and self taught as a painter, he built a language that put Renaissance imagery next to Superflat, with deadpan wide eyed children and hybrid creatures somewhere between dinosaur and myth. He sketches every image before moving to canvas, working in oil, watercolour, pencil, spray paint and charcoal, and draws on epic poetry, film, cartoons and images circulating online, though the deeper sources are his own memories and dreams. Around 2019 the humanoid figures began to thin out and the paintings turned simpler and more abstracted, and from 2022 the work moved decisively from pop surrealism towards a naïve figuration built on rougher strokes and stronger colour, taking on existential questions and, since the birth of his daughter in 2023, on fatherhood.
Solo exhibitions include Tuk at Almine Rech, London (2024), The Wall at Almine Rech, Brussels (2022) and a solo show at Almine Rech, Paris (2025), Samantha at Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles (2022), Rumpus at Nanzuka Underground, Tokyo (2022) and Epos at Thinkspace, Los Angeles (2021). His work has been shown at the Yogyakarta Biennale in 2017, at the D Museum in Seoul, at the Hangaram Art Museum in Seoul, at the Art Museum of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and at the Mori Arts Center Gallery in Tokyo. In 2026 ARTJOG commissioned his installation Generatio: Cyclus Vitae for the Jogja National Museum. His work has been covered by Hypebeast and Juxtapoz, and holds an auction record set at Christie's Hong Kong in 2022.
In 2022 Antono took part in the group exhibition Tutti Frutti at Plan X Milan.
